October News/Discussion

[Kevin]

I'm really surprised to see how negative some people are on the ghoul event. I loved it, a great piece of lore and you got to participate. Maybe I've just been on a pvp server long enough that leaving one area for another due to ganking is just second nature and part of the game for me now. I had little trouble avoiding it when I wanted to. It was a good excuse to do things I wanted to do that didn't involve a major city. With the invasion out there, the HH event, and baron's mount up to 1% drop rate my day was filled. The only thing I hated was how far the run back to my body was from the Shatt graveyard. I did get infected a couple times I wasn't trying to, I still had fun with it after I turned. I infected a couple people, died, and went about my business. The last day and a half was the only time it was out of control, I did get worried they would carry that for the remaining weeks to the expansion and that WOULD have been dumb. But they didn't. IMO thumbs up to Blizz for the event.B)

I can't fairly assess the event. My schedule lately has given me very little in game time and even less out of game time to do stuff with the game.

I died twice while trying to finally get a spec applied to my main and had no clue what wad going on since it was like day 3 or 4 of the event. That was frustrating. I was already annoyed because I couldn't just jump on and play like I wanted to. I needed to figure out spec, try and figure out gear changes, try and figure out glyph crap, try and get my mods going. So I was already saddled with doing stuff that I didn't want to do already, and now I'm dying for no reason that I can understand? I was not happy about it.

But again I know my circumstances weren't the same. Most people probably did what I was trying to do the previous week, the week the patch hit. However I got to log in for all of 25 minutes the week 3.0 hit. I hadn't had time to do any of that stuff. I STILL haven't had time to do much of it. My specs have basically been asking guildies to just get me a spec and just toss me glyphs because I don't have the time to look it up and when I DO have the time to look at a list of glyphs I would rather spend that time doing something more fun.

So I guess I can assess it from the point of the extremely casual player, and it sucked from that point of view because there was too much other crap to worry about.

However, if my situation had been more like it was in the past, I think I would have had fun with it. Right now I'm on the annoyed side because I didn't have time to do anything with it. I also haven't really had time to go after the HH or work on some other stuff that requires other people and I'll never get to do because by the time I do have time for it wrath will be out and they won't want to stop exploring wrath for the older static content.

So losing 20-30 minutes of my time to this event when I only had about 120 - 150 minutes to play that week, yeah, that was not something I was happy about. Again, my situation isn't normal, but with 7 million people playing I couldn't have been the only one that had an unusual situation either. :)